Ukip fury as David Cameron turns down party's ploy for seats in the Lords

A SENIOR Ukip peer promised David Cameron the support of any new peers if the party were given extra seats in the House of Lords.

David Cameron did not take Ukip up on their offer of 'Peers for Votes'

They would support the Government, most of the time?

Lord Pearson of Rannoch

The revelation comes as letters regarding House of Lord's appointments between the Prime Minister and Lord Pearson of Rannoch - a former Ukip leader - were leaked.

A letter from Lord Pearson, sent a week after May's local council elections which saw Ukip win 23 per cent of the vote, appeals for more representation for his Party in the Lords.

A hand-written addition from Lord Pearson reads: "They would support the Government, most of the time?"

A spokesman for Ukip tried to play down the letter, claiming Lord Pearson was merely saying Ukip would not oppose for the sake of opposing.

He said: "If we agree with something we will agree with it.

"It's not a question of just opposing - if we don't agree with something we will vote against it."

Lord Pearson defected from the Conservatives to Ukip in 2007

A list of 30 new peers was released by the Government today, comprised of 14 Conservatives, 10 Liberal Democrats, five Labour nominees, and one Green Party nomination.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage called the omission of Ukip an "insult to democracy".

He said: "For them granting us peerages would be endorsing us as a bona fide political power, and they are simply unwilling to let anyone else into the club who would challenge the status quo.

"Instead they are giving appointments to people who pay hundreds of thousands into their party or who have actually been rejected by voters in recent elections.

"Quite frankly it's an insult to democracy in the UK, a country that prides itself on being open and fair and the mother of Parliaments. It puts Westminster on a par with a developing world country dictatorship.

"Ukip supporters up and down the country should be enraged. The message being sent out by the Prime Minister is 'we don't care how you think, we don't care how you feel and not only will we wilfully ignore the way you vote we will actively block you from having any role in British politics'.

Ukip only has three peers in the House of Lords

A response from the Prime Minister to Lord Pearson's letter was not leaked, but an earlier correspondence sent in 2010 showed David Cameron was not keen to increase the number of Ukip peers.

Ukip currently has three peers in the House of Lords: Lord Pearson, Lord Willoughby de Broke and Baron Stevens of Ludgate